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pose queries, the answers to which, would include all 

 the useful information the subject would admit. 



For upwards of the last 30 years, of my life, I have 

 taken great pleasure in paying attention to the raising 

 of fruit trees ; and if any observations that I have been 

 able to make, prove of service to my fellow citizens, I 

 shall have a pleasure in communicating them. 



I shall not attempt a regular answer to your queries ; 

 yet pay some regard to your arrangement, confining 

 myself principally to the apple tree, 



I consider the apple the greatest and most certain 

 kind to bear ; yet not raised so soon as a peach tree by 

 perhaps 10 years, before they produce much fruit. 



I consider apples under all their varieties, the length 

 of time they may be preserved, and the many uses 

 made of them, not only the most valuable of all our 

 kind of fruits ; but perhaps of more real value to the 

 people in general than all the other fruits. 



The apple is the hardiest kind of fruit tree, and the 

 easiest raised of any that I am acquainted with ; yet 

 perhaps they require the most time to raise. 



I have planted several orchards, and have not expe- 

 rienced any material difference in my success as to their 

 growing well ; whether planted in the fall or spring, 

 or at any time in the winter, provided there is no frost 

 in the ground : I believe any time when there are no 

 leaves on the young trees, w^ill answer equally well to 

 plant them. 



This idea of transplanting fruit trees at any time 

 when they are destitute of leaves, is not an original dis^ 

 covery of mine ; but was communicated to me by let- 



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